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(Courtesy photo) USU wildlife resource research assistant professor Patty Cramer advises UDOT on use of wildlife underpasses and overpasses.

Wildlife crossing structures save lives, hides

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 9:57pm

LOGAN -- If Utah drivers take the high road and wildlife takes the low "road," everyone gets home safely.

Patty Cramer helps design underpasses and overpasses that help prevent collisions between drivers just passing through and the moose, elk, mule deer and smaller animals moving around in their home habitat.

The Utah State University wildland resource research assistant professor determines where underpasses or overpasses are needed based on past collisions and her surveillance footage.

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Utah wildlife officials encourage bird feeders

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 3:47pm

PROVO -- Utah wildlife officials are encouraging residents to help the state's wild birds through the winter by putting out bird food and bird feeders.

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European starlings. Hundreds of these birds died in Clearfield a week before Christmas. (Photo Wikipedia)

Clues emerge in Clearfield bird deaths

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 2:03pm

CLEARFIELD -- Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officials now know what caused hundreds of birds to die in Clearfield a week before Christmas; however, there are still several unanswered questions.

Phil Douglass, the DWR conservation outreach manager for Northern Utah, said the toxicology results -- received Wednesday, from birds sent to a lab in Logan -- show the birds died after being exposed to Starlicide, a poison used primarily for starling population control.

"The thing that's tricky about the situation is there are two formulas of this Starlicide. One is commercial grade (used by the government) and the other is public grade, and there is no way of determining what grade it was," Douglass said. "So we know what it was, we just don't know where it came from."

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Family encounters unexpected visitor

Mike McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 10:25pm

BOUNTIFUL — A Bountiful family was startled by the sound of a deer on Christmas Eve — but in their basement, not on their roof.

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Mass death of starlings confounds investigators

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 6:17am

CLEARFIELD -- City employees have collected approximately 400 dead European starlings, but the reason so many birds have died is still unknown.

Four of those birds are now at a lab in Logan as specialists try to determine the cause of death.

On Monday, the day after the dead birds began showing up in Kiwanis Park, 300 N. Vine St., initial reports said that the birds had been baited for population control by a wildlife agency.

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Coyote hunting just breeds more coyotes

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 9:05am

VERNON -- Bill Keebler knows coyotes. He can follow their tracks, even in deer trails, and he knows their scat and wily ways.

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DWR officers capture bobcat in Ogden

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, October 29, 2011 - 9:25pm

OGDEN -- A young bobcat on a stroll through Ogden resulted in several calls from concerned residents to police Saturday.

A woman followed the animal west as it crossed Wall Avenue and alerted police as to its location.

The Department of Wildlife Resources captured the animal about 12:30 p.m. near 31st Street and Stephens Avenue, a dispatcher said.

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Bountiful may need to thin deer again

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 5:59am

BOUNTIFUL -- City officials are expected to revisit the revival of a program to thin the population of domestic deer within city limits.

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Mountain lion spotted in Ogden

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 9:48pm

OGDEN -- Ogden School District took precautions to get students home safely Thursday afternoon after officials received a report about a mountain lion sighting.

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Big game hunt will return to Antelope Island

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 9:07pm

ANTELOPE ISLAND — For a second consecutive year, there will be limited hunting for trophy mule deer and bighorn sheep on Antelope Island.

The Utah State Parks and Recreation Board, by a 5-2 vote on Wednesday, approved authorizing a one-year extension of the mule deer and bighorn sheep hunts on the island, said Deena Loyola, Utah State Parks and Recreation communication coordinator.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) A government worker and his dogs return Tuesday from tracking a bear that carried off a goat from a Mountain Green neighborhood Monday night.

Black bear carries off Mountain Green goat

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 11:36pm

MOUNTAIN GREEN -- Bloodhounds could not catch the scent of a bear reported to have snatched a goat from a backyard in the Monte Verde area Monday night.

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Dogs helping in search for wounded bear

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 12:08pm

MOUNTAIN GREEN -- Bloodhounds are on the trail of a bear that snatched a goat from a backyard in the Monte Verde area Monday night.

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(Standard-Examiner file photo) Ibis fly across Farmington Bay in 2003. USA Today named it one of its “51 Greatest Places to See Wildlife.”

USA Today names Farmington Bay as top wildlife spot

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 10:16pm

FARMINGTON -- USA Today named the Great Salt Lake Nature Center at Farmington Bay as one of the "51 Greatest Places to See Wildlife."

The Davis County Commission recognized the July 29 article at its commission meeting Tuesday.

Davis County Commissioner Louenda Downs said the article helps put the area "on the map" by giving Farmington Bay national exposure.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) A bear feeds on berries near The Oaks restaurant in Ogden Canyon on Monday.

Boy tells story of bear meeting

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, August 8, 2011 - 10:02pm

OGDEN -- A wide-eyed 9-year-old boy who lives on the 600 block of Canyon Road in Ogden Canyon is hoping an encounter with a bear in his backyard Sunday evening will be something he can talk about for a long, long time.

Hudson Mendoza pointed to the exact spot where he was sitting in a tent with his dad, Scott Mendoza, watching an old episode of "The A-Team" around 7:30 p.m. when he heard a strange sound.

He jumped out of the tent to see a bear on the mountainside behind his home.

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